I recently read a book for an anthropology course titled Land of Open Graves by Jason De León. [su_box title=”Jason De León, Ph.D.”]Jason De León is an Associate Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. His research interests include theories of violence, materiality, death and mourning, Latin…
Category: WAGSFP 2018 Fellows
Reading Reflection Time: Bollywood Style!
So recently, in the search for material concerning the history behind South Asian portrayals in Bollywood movies, I found a super cool article by Aswin Punathambekar called “Bollywood in the Indian-American diaspora: Mediating a transitive logic of cultural citizenship.” In that article, they talk about a groundbreaking Bollywood film that managed to emotionally resonate with both…
Mexicans in Wisconsin
Recently, I went on a research trip to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin to interview two Chicanas about their activist work during the Chicano Movement. In order to prepare me, Professor Cotera had me read Mexicans in Wisconsin by Sergio M. González. The purpose of the reading was to provde me with some context of the history…
Reading Reflection!
Last week, I read the codebooks for Waves I, II, and III of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). I will be using data from Add Health to complete my research study this summer. I read my mentor’s paper copy, so it was nicely organized into ordered sections. The first…
Reading Reflection
This prompt could not have come at a better time given that all my research has been so far is a giant literature review. Don’t worry though, I’m not going to talk about a journal article. While peer reviewed literature is vital to supporting research and giving a proven background on the subject, the literature…
The Larger Impact of My Summer Self-Study
Hey researchers! So I have been hemming and hawing for a while about the practical impact that my research during this two-month experience will make. My hesitation comes in part from growing up thinking that research occurs with lab equipment and quantitative data or qualitative data, which normally, I guess, it does. However, within…
Reading Reflection
[su_heading size=”50″ margin=”80″]Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides[/su_heading] One book I read recently coincidentally fits nicely with this program’s theme of gender is Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides. Middlesex follows the life and history of Callie Stephanides, an intersex man, whose body did not fit the standard definition for a male or a female body. The story begins by detailing the…
Learning about the Abuse of Women in Kashmir
CW: sexual assault/abuse One book that I have been reading this summer is titled Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?, and it is about a pair of villages in the region of Kashmir where the women of these villages were mass-raped by the Indian army in February 1991. Although I won’t be able to do it…
My Research and its Potential Impact
With a lot of help from the lovely Dr. Rona Carter (my WAGSFP mentor and whose lab I work in during the year), I designed the study I am conducting this summer so that I could pursue my research interest in understanding the comorbidity of eating disorders and substance use disorders. Research suggests that almost…
“Early Feeding Practices and Development of Childhood Obesity”
I am working with Pediatrician Dr. Megan Pesch, MD to discover more about the ways that mothers feed their child in their early years affects childhood obesity rates. This includes the choices of foods that are given to children, conversations about food, attitudes towards food of both the mother and child, restrictions of foods or…